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Showing posts with label Education Week. Show all posts

Friday, March 15, 2013

Creative Commons Announces “School of Open” with Courses to Focus on Digital Openness | Open Culture

Creative Commons Announces “School of Open” with Courses to Focus on Digital Openness | Open Culture: ust in time to celebrate Open Education Week, here comes a new initiative, the School of Open, a learning environment focused on increasing our understanding of “openness” and the benefits it brings to creativity and education in the digital age.

Developed by the collaborative education platform Peer to Peer University (P2PU) with organizational support from Creative Commons, the School of Open aims to spread understanding of the power of this brave new world through free online classes. Read more...


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Thursday, December 29, 2011

Feeding Your Reading Life - The Book Whisperer - Education Week Teacher

Feeding Your Reading Life - The Book Whisperer - Education Week Teacher


The Book Whisperer


Donalyn Miller
Donalyn Miller is a 6th grade language arts teacher in Texas who is said to have a "gift": She can turn even the most reluctant (or, in her words, "dormant") readers into students who can't put their books down. Donalyn is the author of The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child (Jossey-Bass/Education Week Press). She first appeared in teachermagazine.org in the popular"Creating Readers" Ask The Mentor column. She writes about how to inspire and motivate student readers, and responds to issues facing teachers and other leaders in the literacy field.



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